〈 Berger | Dillon 〉

There's very little room for free will, properly so-called

Combining quantum mechanics and Chaos theory....I think there is plenty of room...what happens when the sensitivity to initial conditions scale is smaller than Heisenberg uncertainty?

Free will is a testable hypothesis, which was tested and refined for around 30 years now (cf. Benjamin Libet experiment), which showed "that thing" that we recognize as free will is actually extremely predictable. Fair enough, maybe we just had the wrong definition.. 1/n

I like to shave with Ocamm"s razor. Hard to imagine you'd be able to predict that I would tweet this tweet based on a set of initial conditions 13 billion years ago.

I could if I have all the relevant information about the universe that gave rise to this moment (you tweeting). All I need are information about past events, in conjunction with the laws of nature to predict the current states (on a classical scale anyways).

LaPlace demon would be in such a position I described above. Such a being has the ability to know about the future or even the past based solely on information and the laws of nature. With chaos theory, the problem is “information”. If we have it, problem solved.

Even if you had all the information you would still only be able to predict things with various probabilities, but still.. The fact that 100 of you, in the same initial conditions, would do x 70% of the time and y the other 30% *is a law governing your behavior"--not a choice

Well, if the universe is truly deterministic, then you can’t speak of n percent probability (unless n is 100) if you have all the relevant information needed for a specific event. There would be no uncertainty in my prediction (if the universe is deterministic).